Bug#1009999: pulseaudio: log flooded with "ICE I/O error handler called"

[Tino Mettler]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 15.0+dfsg1-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

pulseaudio sometimes start to flood the log with these messages:

pulseaudio[110205]: ICE I/O error handler called

Currtently, there are millions of it in my systemd journal since yesterday afternoon:

$ journalctl --user -b |grep 'ICE I/O error handler called'|wc -l
2539092

According to the source code, this seems to be caused by the x11-xsmp module. My Gnome
session uses Wayland.

-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.17.2 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii adduser 3.121
ii init-system-helpers 1.62
ii libasound2 1.2.6.1-2+b1
ii libasound2-plugins 1:1.2.6-dmo1
hi libc6 2.33-7
ii libcap2 1:2.44-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.14.0-1
ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.8-2
ii libgcc-s1 12-20220319-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.72.1-1
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.20.1-dmo1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.20.1-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1
ii libltdl7 2.4.7-3
ii liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.32-2
ii libpulse0 15.0+dfsg1-4
ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libsndfile1 1.0.31-2
ii libsoxr0 0.1.3-4
ii libspeexdsp1 1.2.0-1
ii libstdc++6 12-20220319-1
ii libsystemd0 250.4-1
ii libtdb1 1.4.6-2+b1
ii libudev1 250.4-1
ii libwebrtc-audio-processing1 0.3-1+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.5-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.5-1
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii pulseaudio-utils 15.0+dfsg1-4

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
pn dbus-user-session <none>
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 250.4-1
pn rtkit <none>

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii paprefs 1.1-2
ii pavucontrol 5.0-2
pn pavumeter <none>
ii udev 250.4-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/default.pa changed:
.fail
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
load-module module-switch-on-port-available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
load-module module-detect
.endif
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
.fail
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-zeroconf-publish
.ifexists module-gsettings.so
.nofail
load-module module-gsettings
.fail
.endif
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-role-cork
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply
.nofail
.include /etc/pulse/default.pa.d
load-module module-zeroconf-discover


-- debconf-show failed

[Igor Kovalenko]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:23:05 +0200 Tino Mettler
<tino.mettl...@tikei.de> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 15.0+dfsg1-4
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> pulseaudio sometimes start to flood the log with these messages:
>
> pulseaudio[110205]: ICE I/O error handler called
>
> Currtently, there are millions of it in my systemd journal since yesterday afternoon:

Hi Tino,

This is fixed in pulseaudio-15.99.1, you need this change
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/650